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Month: January 2017

Changing Times: Lovis Corinth, 1905-1909

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As he celebrates his 50th birthday, his young family are growing in size and number. More brilliant paintings, and more success.

January 16, 2017 General, Painting

Google Translate you’re drunk, go home

Can you translate Selbstporträt als Fahnenträger into English, please, Google?

January 16, 2017 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Lessons from Swift 1: strings, files, bundles

Covers String, FileManager, and Bundle, in Swift 3. Includes trimming space, inserting attributed text, file attributes.

January 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Lessons from Swift 0: index and reasons

Index to a new series of articles containing useful Swift 3 code snippets, hints, and more. Aimed at those getting started with the language on macOS.

January 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

The meaning of tortoises

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Why are there two tortoises in the foreground of Moreau’s ‘Orpheus’? After a journey through Zen Buddhism, fables, and political allegory, the answer may be more obvious.

January 15, 2017 General, Painting

Last Week on my Mac: Workflow efficiency

All too often, we select apps on the basis of features. Support for performing repetitive tasks efficiently and without error is much more important.

January 15, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Brief Candles: Henri Regnault, the history painter who became history

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Winner of the Prix de Rome in 1866, in the next 4 years he painted several startling canvases which took the Salon by storm. Then he was killed.

January 14, 2017 General, Painting

The Salome Story: analysing and telling changing narrative on your Mac

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Here’s a pre-release test version of my hypertext story about the stories of Salome, and a wonderful rhythmic workflow for hypertext authoring.

January 14, 2017 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Hesiod’s Brush, the paintings of Gustave Moreau: 9 The final Salon

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A series of paintings of beautiful women, culminating in a large work featuring hundreds of female figures. The artist had one thing on his mind.

January 13, 2017 General, Painting

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: quirky commands

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A command which is seriously pernickety about its parameters, and sends all its output to the standard error stream. Such fun.

January 13, 2017 Macs, Technology

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